Question

-Which of the following bills on labor market discrimination has not yet become law? a) The Equal Pay Act, b) The Civil Rights Act, c) Title VII, d) The Paycheck Fairness Act

-The Paycheck Fairness Act does not include which of the following: a) bans employers from asking job applicants how much they previously made, b)prohibits companies from retaliating against workers who share wage information, c) companies need to share with the Department of Labor how much they’re paying employees and demonstrate that any salary differences are based on factors other than sex, such as education or experience, d) protections homosexual workers

-Low-income countries which have low fertility rates often also have: a) low employment opportunities, b)high-cost, inaccessible healthcare systems, c) high levels of income inequality, d) income and land redistribution

-According to Malthus, population growth would grow______ than food and resource production, resulting in _____to population growth a) faster, no limits b) faster, a natural limit c) slower, a natural limit d) slower, no limits

- Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) imposed (as a condition for borrowing money to get out of debt crisis) which of the following: a)Decreasing exports, b)Increasing imports c)Liberalization of trade and finance d)Increased investment in public assets

-Because of globalization, firms around the world can move their factories to poor, low wage countries. Some of the consequences for workers in these factories are all of the following except: a)Occupational segregation: factory workers are usually female and supervisors are male, b)Very low wages, c)Absence of health and safety measures, d)Increased employment security

Answer 1

1) The paycheck fairness Act

( It's a proposed law to add procedural protection to equal pay act. It's yet to become an act.)

2) companies need to share with the department of labor how much they are paying employees and demonstrate that any salary differences are based on factors other than sex such as education and experience.

( The act includes such a provision. But the companies reporting to department of labor isn't included.)

3) lncome and land redistribution.

( Studies have found that countries in which land and income redistribution took place, had a low fertility rate.)

4) Faster ; natural limit.

( Malthus opined that, population increases in geometric progression and money supply in arithmetic Progression

If we fail control it via preventive checks. Nature will control it via positive checks.)

5) liberalisation of trade and finance

(All those countries who sought financial aid via structural adjustment facility had to open up their economies and implement liberalisation)

6)lncreased employment security

( Firms expanding their operations to low wage countries are not concerned with providing employment securities.)